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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Jan. 29.
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The new Better Value plan compares well to the company's Experience More plan, but this limited time deal has some strings attached.
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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for Jan. 29, No. 697.
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Wes Ott covers today's biggest tech stories, including a Gemini-backed Siri version of Siri appearing as early as next month. Plus, Amazon shuts down its supermarkets, and Meta experiments with paid tiers on its apps like Instagram and Facebook.
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 Apple today announced that its hit comedy-drama series "Ted Lasso" is returning for a fourth season in "summer 2026," but it did not share a specific date.
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Outta here, cars! Tesla has to make room for promises of an automated, robotic future.
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The latest research shows that wearables could soon be a vital part of tracking your heart health.
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 In 2019 Apple TV released its first original television series, and since then has clearly decided to invest in top-shelf science fiction as a defining pillar of its offering. Over the years it's put together an impressive slate. Some shows have been outright successes, and where others have missed, there's at least been a refreshingly grand artistic swing.
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The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 5 percent in after-hours trading.
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These are the best sleep headphones, as recommended by sleep experts.
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Google's settlement with Android users would resolve the lawsuit and alter how the company manages its terms of service, though not all users would receive financial compensation.
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That would be a major jump from the $72 billion that the Silicon Valley tech giant shelled out last year, as it aims to compete in the artificial intelligence race.
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Of course, the ARTEY Awards also included K-Pop Demon Hunters.
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 Apple has set a new deadline of November 1, 2026 for all Patreon creators to switch from Patreon's legacy billing system to the App Store's in-app purchase system in the Patreon app on the iPhone and iPad, as reported by TechCrunch.
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If you can't remove it, tune it out.
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These are the best TVs I've reviewed for every budget, including top brands such as LG, Samsung and TCL.
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Across Europe's largest cities, people are gathering for semi-silent, offline hangouts, in search of an experience that isn't mediated through their smartphones.
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Netflix's most-watched movie gets a trio of perfectly rendered collectibles aimed at deep-pocketed Huntr/x fans.
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It's not the heavyweight supermoon from January, but toss in a snowy landscape and suddenly your backyard's basking in moonlit magic.
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The hit Netflix series is back and spotlighting Benedict Bridgerton.
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It's all fun and games until every aspect of your life is splashed all over the dark web.
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We have spent hours testing these desks to help you find the best desk for your office.
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An AI tool that can text you and use your apps? It blew up online. What came next involved crypto scammers, IP lawyers and more.
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Rumors say Apple could use Intel's 14A process to manufacture some Apple-designed chips for non-Pro iPhones by 2028, diversifying beyond TSMC.
The post Apple Is Rumored to Tap Intel for Future iPhone Chip Production appeared first on eWEEK.
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This double-folding phone will be the most expensive mainstream handset released in the US.
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Is there a magic ratio for measuring coffee beans and water when brewing at home? Here's what a professional had to say.
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The e-commerce giant has been cutting costs while pouring resources into building data centers to compete in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
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More than $200 million is staked on political or government actions on Polymarket and Kalshi, raising concerns about insider trading from officials in the know.
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Here's a use of AI that appears to do more good than harm. A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) developed a neural network that searches through space images for anomalies. The results were far beyond what human experts could have done. In two and a half days, it sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts, discovering 1,400 anomalous objects.
The creators of the AI model, David O'Ryan and Pablo Gómez, call it AnomalyMatch. The pair trained it on (and applied it to) the Hubble Legacy Archive, which houses tens of thousands of datasets from Hubble's 35-year history. "While trained scientists excel at spotting cosmic anomalies, there's simply too much Hubble data for experts to sort through at the necessary level of fine detail by hand," the ESA wrote in its press release.
After less than three days of scanning, AnomalyMatch returned a list of likely anomalies. It still requires human eyes at the end: Gómez and O'Ryan reviewed the candidates to confirm which were truly abnormal. Among the 1,400 anomalous objects the pair confirmed, more than 800 were previously undocumented.
Most of the results showed galaxies merging or interacting, which can lead to odd shapes or long tails of stars and gas. Others were gravitational lenses. (That's where the gravity of a foreground galaxy bends spacetime so that the light from a background galaxy is warped into a circle or arc.) Other discoveries included planet-forming disks viewed edge-on, galaxies with huge clumps of stars and jellyfish galaxies. Adding a bit of mystery, there were even "several dozen objects that defied classification altogether."
"This is a fantastic
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that his office is investigating whether TikTok is truly censoring content critical of Trump, days after ByteDance finalized a deal to spin off its business in the US. Newsom made the announcement in response to a post on X, claiming that you can no longer send messages in the app with the word "Epstein" in it. Newsom's office, in a separate post, said it was able to independently confirm instances wherein TikTok suppressed content critical of President Donald Trump.
The governor's office told Politico that it tried to send a direct message with the word "Epstein" in it and got a warning that it could not be sent because it may violate TikTok's community guidelines. Newsom's team is now "launching a review of this conduct and is calling on the California Department of Justice to determine whether it violates California law."
If you'll recall, ByteDance finalized a deal for a new US entity just as TikTok was about to be banned in the US. ByteDance only owns 19.9 percent of the new entity called the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, while the new investors own 80 percent. Oracle, Silver Lake and Emirati fund MGX have a 15 percent stake each. The US business will now retrain TikTok's algorithm on US data and will also be in charge of content moderation.
After the US entity's announcement, users started
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Never underestimate the chilling powers of grainy grayscale imagery and ethereal whooshing sounds. Outside Parties asks, "What if I Spy, but in an alien hell dimension?", and it is impressively unnerving despite the fact that nothing's really happening at any given time. It goes all in on atmosphere, to great effect. This is the Playdate horror game that I've been waiting for.
Adams Immersive's Outside Parties is a sort of scavenger hunt across a massive image of a realm called the Outside, which can only be visited by astral travel, according to the lore. There are lots of unknowns about what or where it really is, though explorers have mapped it fairly extensively through out-of-body excursions and they've encountered thousands of different entities there, including the spirits of the dead. As the player, you have come across a Hellscryer K5 — the communication device, psychic camera and recorder used for these trips — and now you're combing through the mission logs, getting sucked into the mystery of it all. Think of the K5 as your Playdate, except powered by blood and runes.
At the center of Outside Parties is a 1.44 gigapixel, 360-degree panoramic HDR image which has dozens of eerie scenes hidden within it: skeletons of human, animal and paranormal origin; scary robed figures and occult symbols etched all around; what appear to be fountains and rivers of blood; a Stonehenge of teeth. These are the targets you're meant to track down, and as you hone in and check them off your list, voice signals attached to each one will reveal more and more of the explorer's spellbinding story.
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 Best Buy today has a match of the record low price on the AirPods Pro 3, available for $199.99, down from $249.00. This is only the second time in 2026 that we've tracked the AirPods Pro 3 at this low price, which matches the best deal we saw over the holiday season. This is a flash sale and it will end later tonight, so those interested should shop soon.
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A "Hard Fork" and "Search Engine" collaboration.
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